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This is Living Waters of Grace, 
the teaching ministry of Clark 

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Waffer, senior pastor of Calvary
Chapel of Westmoreland, County 

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of Greensburg, PA. 
Now here's Pastor Clark as he 

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continues teaching through God's
Word. 

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The world system is a system 
where people live against God. 

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They have no conscience. 
They have no conception of good 

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or evil. 
They just basically do whatever 

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they want to do. 
They're under the influence, the

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Bible says, of the Prince of the
power of the air. 

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Who's Satan? 
He's the one that blinds people 

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to their need of a savior. 
He's the one that tells you it's

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not hip to follow Christ. 
It's not cool to be a Christian.

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It's better to follow the ways 
of darkness. 

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Throughout history, we see 
nations conquering nations. 

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There were times when that might
have meant just wiping people 

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out and taking their land. 
But many times the people were 

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given a choice to pledge their 
loyalty to the conquering nation

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and assimilate into its culture.
In today's message, Pastor Clark

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wants you to know that even if 
you live in this world, you 

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don't have to pledge your 
loyalty to it. 

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As a Christian, your loyalty 
belongs to Christ, and you have 

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no part in the Kingdom of 
darkness. 

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Now here's Pastor Clark in 
Revelation Chapter 17 with 

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today's edition of Living Waters
of Grace. 

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Revelation 17 and some of your 
bibles will have a sub heading 

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over the chapter. 
Mine says a scarlet woman and 

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the scarlet Beast. 
Sounds like a good title for a 

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movie, huh? 
And it's fascinating that we're 

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living in these days of the 
religious world of Babylon. 

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We talk about Babylon as at one 
time being a literal city in the

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Mideast, and it will rise up 
again in the last days to be the

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place of power for the 
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But we are also living in this 
time of Babylon now, which is 

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also seen and described in the 
history of the church as the 

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world system. 
And unfortunately, we are all 

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part of this religious Babylon. 
We're living in the world. 

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The Bible tells us we're in the 
world, but we're not to be of 

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the world. 
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But we are all being exposed to 
the falseness of the religious 

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system that is coming up on our 
country right now and the rest 

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of the world. 
And so we'll get into that in in

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a couple minutes. 
But we studied back in 

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Revelation chapter 16, verse 19 
and chapter 14, verse 8, 

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declaring the history of the 
eventual destruction and fall of

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Babylon. 
And in Revelation 17 and 18, 

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which is what we're going to be 
studying the next several weeks,

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the fall of Babylon is very 
carefully detailed. 

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It's interesting. 
Babylon is mentioned in the 

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Bible 287 times in the 
Scriptures, more than any other 

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city except for Jerusalem. 
Babylon at one time, as I said, 

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was a literal city on the 
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In Genesis Chapter 11, verse one
through 9, we see right after 

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the flood that Babylon was the 
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world at that time, and it was a
place that expressed organized 

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hostility toward God. 
It's where the tower Babel was. 

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If you remember when all those 
folks thought that they could 

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figure out the secrets of the 
universe, if they build a tower 

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high enough into the heavens, 
they would be able to find out 

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what was happening behind the 
curtain, so to speak. 

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Later on, Babylon was the 
capital of the empire that 

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cruelly conquered Judah. 
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essence of all evil, the 
embodiment of cruelty, the foe 

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of God's people, and the lasting
type of sin, carnality, lust and

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greed. 
In John's day, the apostle 

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John's day, the city of Rome was
seen as a type of this city of 

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Babylon. 
It was and and a sense Babylon 

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at that time because it 
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Christians faith. 
Now, when you think about cities

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today and where we live, you 
might think of the most 

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decadent, ungodly cities in the 
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Usually they're the cities that 
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Los Angeles or New York City. 
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other places in the world that 
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cities that are set up to live 
in all kind of depravity and all

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kind of immorality and 
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And they're cities that are, for
the most part, clearly forsaking

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God and their political 
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their communities. 
The concept of Babylon is even 

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more intense, as we'll study in 
Revelation 17 and 18 here in the

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next couple weeks. 
The reign of Antichrist is 

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spreading around the world 
today, even though he's 

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literally not a real person as 
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But today and throughout history
we see Babylon as the world 

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system and under the Antichrist 
it will even be more evident 

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when he is set up on the earth 
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Ephesians chapter 2, verse two 
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This is what it describes about 
the world and about where many 

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of us were at one time and where
some of you still maybe are. 

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It says at one time you walked 
according to the course of this 

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world, according to the Prince 
of the power of the air, the 

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Spirit who now works in the sons
of disobedience, among whom also

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we all once conducted ourselves 
in the lust of the flesh, 

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fulfilling the desires of the 
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And we're by nature children of 
wrath just as others. 

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So the world system is a system 
where people live against God. 

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They have no conscience. 
They have no conception of good 

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or evil. 
They just basically do whatever 

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they want to do. 
They're under the influence, the

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Bible says, of the Prince of the
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Who's Satan. 
He's the one that blinds people 

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to their need of a savior. 
He's the one that tells you it's

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not hip to follow Christ. 
It's not cool to be a Christian.

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It's better to follow the ways 
of darkness. 

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There's a propensity in the 
human heart before we become 

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Christians to want to follow the
Prince of the power of the air. 

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We believe that there's a God, 
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God is the God of this world, 
the Bible says, and it's Satan 

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himself. 
It says he's the spirit who now 

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works. 
And everyone who's rebelling 

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against God, everyone who hates 
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everyone who's walking away from
God is controlled by this spirit

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of Antichrist. 
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us, not the some of us, all of 
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lust of the flesh, fulfilling 
the desires of what our fallen 

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nature dictated to us. 
And we were by nature children 

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of wrath, meaning enemies of 
God, even as the rest of the 

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human race. 
So the only hope for people is 

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Jesus Christ, because later on 
in that chapter it says, but God

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in his rich mercy when we were 
dead in Christ has quickened us 

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together with Christ. 
By grace you are saved. 

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So unless Christ came to pull us
up out of that darkness and out 

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of that place of rebellion, all 
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Aren't you glad that Christ 
reached down to you when you 

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weren't perhaps looking for Him,
but He drew you to Himself? 

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He called you to Himself and 
pulled you out of this wicked 

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system of this world? 
Not the beauty of creation that 

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God has made. 
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rivers, the wildlife, the 
forests, all the wonderful 

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things of God's creation has 
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so instead of man looking at the
creation and worshiping and 

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glorifying God, man ignores the 
creation, acts like there is no 

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God, and changes the worship of 
God for the worship of the 

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creators. 
It tells us in Romans chapter 1.

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And God eventually gives those 
who worship this world system 

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over to a reprobate mind to do 
the things that are convenient 

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for them. 
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sorted sexual perversions that 
are so rampant and prevalent on 

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the face of the earth today. 
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chapter 2, verse 15 and 17. 
You might want to just flip over

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there. 
That's just a little bit to the 

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left of the Book of Revelation 
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And this also describes the 
present world system that we're 

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living in right now. 
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chapter 2 verse 15, it says do 
not love the world or the things

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in the world, meaning do not 
love the world system are the 

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things that are in the world 
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If anyone loves the world or the
world system, the love of the 

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Father is not in him for all 
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Again, the world system, the 
lust of the flesh, the lust of 

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the eyes and the pride of life 
is not of the Father, but is of 

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the world system of the world 
and the world or the world 

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system is passing away and the 
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But he who does the will of God 
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So much of what you and I are 
impacted with or by daily, 

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whether it's the media, the 
television, the movie industry, 

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the music industry, the 
publications, the Internet, it 

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we're being bombarded by the 
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He's in control of the media. 
He's in control of the Airways, 

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the marketing strategies. 
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and this woman, she hasn't 
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She said a long time and she 
told me that she was visiting 

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some relatives and they had the 
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portrayed would have been seen 
as being pornography when she 

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was a little girl. 
But we have been so like watered

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down. 
We're like the frogs in the 

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frying pan. 
Our conscience isn't even 

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bothered by some of the stuff 
that we see and hear anymore, 

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not realizing that we're 
collectively, even as 

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Christians, being sucked in by 
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Many of us are impacted by the 
fashion industry and we look and

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we say, well, this is what the 
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This is what I got to wear, or 
this is what the world's 

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watching. 
I got to watch it, or this is 

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what the world's buying and I 
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And we're not supposed to be of 
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Jesus says, my Kingdom is not of
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He says come out from among them
and be separate, sayeth the 

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Lord. 
And so we see in first John 

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chapter 2, the apostle John who 
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Revelation talks about this 
world system of being full of 

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lust and pride. 
The definition for lust is self 

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absorbed desire for an object, 
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You place it above all things in
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Have you ever been guilty of 
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I have lust. 
It makes you leave the path of 

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the holiness of the person of 
God and begin to have a desire 

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for something that is 
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Pride, the definition of pride, 
independence of the Creator God.

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I'm going to do this. 
I'm going to do that. 

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I'm going to go here, I'm going 
to buy this. 

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I'm going to without ever 
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Independence of the creator God,
living as though he doesn't even

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exist. 
Living like there is no 

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judgement Day. 
Inordinate self focus. 

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The esteem of self that you're 
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An unreasonable conceit of 1's 
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beauty, wealth and rank or 
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The contempt of God, the 
contempt of humility, the 

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contempt of love, and the 
contempt of living and sacrifice

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for the sake of God's Kingdom 
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That's the definition of pride. 
So in the last days in the world

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system, it says men will be 
lovers of themselves rather than

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lovers of God. 
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right? 
And we're also impacted by it, 

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aren't we? 
If we're honest, we all get 

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sucked into it to some extent. 
And that's why we have to 

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continually ask the Lord to 
search our hearts and to purify 

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us that we be holy even as He is
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In the Revelation chapter 17, 
verse one and two, it says, then

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one of the seven angels who had 
the seven bowls came and talked 

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with me, saying to me, come, I 
will show you the judgment of 

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the great harlot who sits on 
many waters, with whom the kings

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of the earth committed 
fornication and the inhabitants 

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of the earth were made drunk 
with the wine or for 

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fornication. 
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describe religious Babylon 
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Here it says, I will show you 
the judgment of the great harlot

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and thank the Lord that one day 
this world system will be 

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judged. 
I hate seeing what it does to 

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people. 
I hate seeing how it destroys 

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marriages and causes young 
people to rebel against their 

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parents and how the systems of 
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anti God and contrary to God, 
pushing evolution and scientific

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theory above the fact that we 
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and likeness of God. 
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are growing up in the nurture 
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getting sent off to colleges 
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unfortunately are destroying the
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people wants to firm. 
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parents send their kids off to 
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tempted to do what the world 
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immorality and take drugs and 
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ways of God. 
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this fate of the suddenly girl 
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destroyed. 
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sooner the better. 
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That's what the early church was
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quickly, Lord Jesus. 
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they were persecuted and they 
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wickedness of the world and they
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As I said, we're like the frogs 
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being turned up and we don't 
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our very lives in Christ. 
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separate, saith the Lord. 
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interesting fact that existed 
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came into play, and yet it was 
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the Messiah would one day come. 
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controlled by the devil and the 
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Jesus Christ. 
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history here and some people say
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there's some similarities and 
weaving into the Scripture 

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regarding this story I'm about 
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They believe that this concept 
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Nimrod's wife. 
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Simmer Miss or something like 
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the years that point back to 
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showing her holding the savior 
infant Tamas. 

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brought back to life. 
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Canaanite name for the 
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So it's interesting how it's 
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Christianity, right, with Christ
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religion and Ezekiel touches on 
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speaking about and protesting 
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for this person named Tammuz. 
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heathen practice and making cake
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Jeremiah 44 also speaks of 
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heaven. 
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teaching that Babylon and in 
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speaking about this scarlet 
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representation of someone who 
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of heaven is a part of this 
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It says that this one sits on 
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me, the waters which you saw 
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peoples, multitudes, nations and
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The unification we see today, 
the One World Church, believe it

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or not, we don't maybe sense it 
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this interest in becoming under 
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leader, one religious authority.
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World World Council of Churches,
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It has nothing to do with the 
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It's let's set up a religion in 
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going to mention God really 
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denominations and big powerful 
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representatives from apostate 
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Witnesses and the Hindus and the
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whole idea of having this simple
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world spiritually, which is 
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harlot in Revelation chapter 17.
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religions and the tribulation 
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Vatican. 
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lot of problems today. 
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I mean, it isn't anybody's 
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It's documented through the 
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the ungodly things that have 
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Catholicism. 
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for Protestant Protestantism, 
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It isn't just the Catholic 
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too, where they're teaching 
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spirits, doctrines of demons, 
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specializes in. 
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will give heed to seducing 
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It's amazing when you study 
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religious groups to find out 
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trust many times is in the 
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living as well, the compromise 
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government leaders, the 
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our pastors and our people that 
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people to the truth are 
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a extreme atheist and heretic. 
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of the masses. 
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that in a Christian way, false 
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Antichrist. 
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everywhere. 
It's amazing what people are 

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saying. 
You know, there's all roads lead

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to heaven. 
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you hear. 
It doesn't matter what you 

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believe as long as you believe 
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Anybody that doesn't know the 
truth will tell you that they 

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just want to water it down. 
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three and four says for the time
will come, well, they will not 

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endorse sound doctrine. 
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will not endorse sound doctrine,
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desires because they have 
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Tell me, you know, basically 
tell me what I want to hear, not

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what I need to hear. 
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teachers and will turn their 
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turned aside. 
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Babylonian New Age heresies. 
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chapter 2, verse 9 through 12, 
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of the lawless 1, the 
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verse nine of the lawless 1 is, 
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Satan, with all power signs and 
lying wonders and with all 

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unrighteousness deception among 
those who perish because they 

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did not receive the love of the 
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So people who are blowing off 
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walking away from it and want to
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they don't have any love for the
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And so it says in verse 11. 
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send them a strong delusion that
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that they all may be condemned 
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but had pleasure in 
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Verse one and two, it talks 
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makes the inhabitants of the 
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wine of her fornication. 
How she does this, she gets 

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people to compromise. 
The world system gets people to 

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compromise with spiritual 
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You know, a Christian has no 
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circles. 
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being involved in yoga. 
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being involved in any of the 
eastern religions because they 

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are all Pagan. 
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Churches will have yoga classes 
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and you can go online. 
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Christianity see how they mix. 
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truth. 
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destruction. 
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do yoga, they think it's 
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You know, just do stretching 
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Nothing wrong with stretching 
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But if you do stretching 
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you don't realize, and many of 
them don't realize it, but the 

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positions you're sitting in are 
setting you up to be in line 

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with the energies of the Pagan 
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In the Book of Revelation, 
Pastor Clark is taking us 

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through all kinds of events and 
happenings that are predicted 

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for the future. 
But for those who believe and 

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follow Jesus, there's much to 
look forward to in heaven with 

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Jesus. 
However, for those who are here 

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on earth during the Tribulation,
there's all kinds of chaos that 

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will unfold. 
The Bible talks about an 

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Antichrist, a false prophet, and
of course, that evil enemy, 

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Satan. 
Do you see how there are such 

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clever attempts for the enemy to
disguise himself as God and even

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the Trinity? 
The true Savior of the world is 

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God and how He comes to rescue 
through his triune nature God 

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the Father, Jesus the Son, and 
God the Holy Spirit? 

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Just like Satan tried to take 
over for God in heaven and was 

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cast out, Satan will try to 
convince people on earth that he

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is the Triune God to be 
worshipped instead of the 

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legitimate God in heaven. 
It's an attempt, and although he

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will capture plenty in his 
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The true God wins, and 
Revelation unpacks how that will

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all happen in detail. 
Be encouraged because there's a 

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way out for all of this madness 
that will ensue on this earth. 

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But you don't want to wait 
indefinitely to make that 

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decision about Jesus. 
We don't know when the church 

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will be raptured, and you want 
to be ready to be with Jesus. 

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